Camp Joyce Kilmer, Scituate, Mass. - ca 1930's
St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church

Camp Joyce Kilmer, Scituate, Mass. - ca 1930's
St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church

Camp Joyce Kilmer was an Army barracks during World War I and was purchased by St. Bridget's parish through the efforts of Fr. Charles Donahue, Curate at the church. Every summer for nearly ten years the boys and girls of the parish would each spend two weeks at the camp. Before the season opened the men of the parish and friends would spend a weekend getting the camp ready and again in the fall prepared the camp for the winter. During World War II the camp was used by both Army and Navy groups and then it phased out of existence.

Seen in the left photo: William Curley, Patrick Johnson, Charles Irwin, John Moynihan, Wilbur Clark, Joseph Schnair, Sr., William O'Toole, Bart Sprat, Waslof Sofka, Harold Sheridan, Toni Kane, Fr. Donahue, William Johnston, Rev. Walter Roche, Dr. Edward Flaherty, Frank Parks, Joe Connors, John J, Driscoll, John Spratt, Jere Bradley, Joe Dineen, __McCarthy, James Priest, Bucky Whalen, Roy Sewall, Frank Binks, Frank Maran, Toni King, __Watts, __Paul, Louis Evers, Robert Duggan

Right photo: Back row, l to r: Fr. O'Bryan, Jim Farrell, Fr. Roche, "camp cook", Artie Johnson, Al Sullivan, Bill Creely, Joe Dineen
Front row, l to r: Jerry Bradley, ___?, Bud Lawrence, John Moynihan, Henry Mariani, Spec White, Phil Allard, Waslof Sofka

ca 1930

Donated by Ruth Clare

1999.331

2012.415

Photo prints

7 x 9 in.

3 x 5 in.

PB26